dccp ccid-2: Implementation of circular Ack Vector buffer with overflow handling
This completes the implementation of a circular buffer for Ack Vectors, by
extending the current (linear array-based) implementation. The changes are:
(a) An `overflow' flag to deal with the case of overflow. As before, dynamic
growth of the buffer will not be supported; but code will be added to deal
robustly with overflowing Ack Vector buffers.
(b) A `tail_seqno' field. When naively implementing the algorithm of Appendix A
in RFC 4340, problems arise whenever subsequent Ack Vector records overlap,
which can bring the entire run length calculation completely out of synch.
(This is documented on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/\
ack_vectors/tracking_tail_ackno/ .)
(c) The buffer length is now computed dynamically (i.e. current fill level),
as the span between head to tail.
As a result, dccp_ackvec_pending() is now simpler - the #ifdef is no longer
necessary since buf_empty is always true when IP_DCCP_ACKVEC is not configured.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
diff --git a/net/dccp/ackvec.h b/net/dccp/ackvec.h
index 3e894a0..23880be 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ackvec.h
+++ b/net/dccp/ackvec.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
* the maximum size of a single Ack Vector. Setting %DCCPAV_NUM_ACKVECS to 1
* will be sufficient for most cases of low Ack Ratios, using a value of 2 gives
* more headroom if Ack Ratio is higher or when the sender acknowledges slowly.
+ * The maximum value is bounded by the u16 types for indices and functions.
*/
#define DCCPAV_NUM_ACKVECS 2
#define DCCPAV_MAX_ACKVEC_LEN (DCCP_SINGLE_OPT_MAXLEN * DCCPAV_NUM_ACKVECS)
@@ -55,8 +56,10 @@
* @av_buf_head: head index; begin of live portion in @av_buf
* @av_buf_tail: tail index; first index _after_ the live portion in @av_buf
* @av_buf_ackno: highest seqno of acknowledgeable packet recorded in @av_buf
+ * @av_tail_ackno: lowest seqno of acknowledgeable packet recorded in @av_buf
* @av_buf_nonce: ECN nonce sums, each covering subsequent segments of up to
* %DCCP_SINGLE_OPT_MAXLEN cells in the live portion of @av_buf
+ * @av_overflow: if 1 then buf_head == buf_tail indicates buffer wraparound
* @av_records: list of %dccp_ackvec_record (Ack Vectors sent previously)
* @av_veclen: length of the live portion of @av_buf
*/
@@ -65,7 +68,9 @@
u16 av_buf_head;
u16 av_buf_tail;
u64 av_buf_ackno:48;
+ u64 av_tail_ackno:48;
bool av_buf_nonce[DCCPAV_NUM_ACKVECS];
+ u8 av_overflow:1;
struct list_head av_records;
u16 av_vec_len;
};
@@ -112,9 +117,10 @@
const u8 *value, const u8 len);
extern int dccp_ackvec_update_records(struct dccp_ackvec *av, u64 seq, u8 sum);
+extern u16 dccp_ackvec_buflen(const struct dccp_ackvec *av);
-static inline int dccp_ackvec_pending(const struct dccp_ackvec *av)
+static inline bool dccp_ackvec_is_empty(const struct dccp_ackvec *av)
{
- return av->av_vec_len;
+ return av->av_overflow == 0 && av->av_buf_head == av->av_buf_tail;
}
#endif /* _ACKVEC_H */